Improved bed-bottom



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

RUFUS S. SANBORN, OF RIPON, W'ISCONSIN.

IMPROVED BED-BOTTOM.

Spcciiieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,679, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, RUFns S. SANBOEN, of Ripon, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improved Rubber NVoven and Stayed Slat Bed-Bottom 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of myimproved bedbottom. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the saine, and Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section.

The saine part is marked by the saine letter of reference wherever it occurs.

rEhe nature ot this invention consists in giving elastic support to the slats of a bedbottom by interweavin g therewith, in a direction at right or other suitable angles ,to their length, cords or bands of rubber or other elastic materi-al adapted to the purpose.

To enable others to make and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the drawings, whereon A marks the bedstead-frame, to which the bottom is to be attached; B, the longitudinal slats, which are of wood and of the ordinary form 5 C, the cords or bands, of rubber or rubber web or other suitable elastic material, which pass through loops l, of leather, attached to the bedstead-t'rame, and are interwoven with the slats in the manner clearly shown in the drawings.

The slats B are suspended to the bedsteadframe by means of leather loops I, passing through rubber loops or rings r, attached to the frame.

A transverse slat, D, attached at the point represented to the longitudinal slats, serves to equalize the pressure of any weight applied to the bed-bottom by distributing it among all the slats.

The mode of attachment of the slats or cords to the bedstead-trame is not material to this invention, nor is the described direction ot' the slats or cords essential. The slats may be placed transversely and the cords longiA tudinally, or the latter may be interwoven diA agonally with the slats.

I have described and represented the arl rangement which I have essayed with success, but contemplate the other arrangements just alluded to as embraced in the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bed-bottom formed by interweaving with the ordinary slats, cords, or bands of indiarubber or other suitable elastic material, substantially in the manner described and shown.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed at Ripon this 13th dayT ot' February, A. D. 1866.

RUFUS S. SANBORN.

Vitnesses E. B. PRIDE, A. C. NYE. 

